A series of copper-zinc acetate and zincian georgeite precursors have been produced by supercritical CO2 antisolvent (SAS) precipitation as precursors to Cu/ZnO catalysts for the water gas shift (WGS) reaction. The amorphous materials were prepared by varying the water/ethanol volumetric ratio in the initial metal acetate solutions. Water addition promoted georgeite formation at the expense of ...

A combined catalyst and sorbent was developed for reacting CO with steam to produce H2 in a single reaction stage at 600 °C by employing the water gas shift (WGS) reaction. The combined material was in the form of spherical pellets where each pellet consisted of a CaO core for absorbing byproduct CO2 surrounded by a porous shell of Al2O3 which supported a Ni catalyst. The best results were achi...

In the present study the oxidation state and the surface composition of a ternary PtRuCo catalyst were investigated under methanol steam reforming (SRM) and water gas shift (WGS) reaction conditions at 570 K. Ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APPES) was applied in situ at 0.5 mbar, while simultaneously monitoring the catalytic activity of the sample by on-line mass spectrometry...

1-wt% Pd-CeO(2) catalysts were prepared by co-precipitation of Pd nanoparticles with ceria (Pd@CeO(2)-CP), by a microemulsion procedure (Pd@CeO(2)-ME), and by normal impregnation of Pd salts (Pd/CeO(2)-IMP) in order to test the concept that Pd-CeO(2) catalysts could be more stable for the water-gas-shift (WGS) reaction when the Pd is embedded in CeO(2). Initial WGS rates measured at 250 degrees...

Na promoted Pt/TiO2 catalysts have been studied under high severity, near equilibrium, conditions for use as a single stage WGS catalyst. Addition of 3 wt% Na to a 1 wt% Pt/TiO2 catalyst has been found to improve water gas shift activity significantly compared to Pt/TiO2, Pt/CeO2, and Pt–Re/TiO2 catalysts. This catalyst is stable when the reaction temperature is higher than 250 C. Deactivation ...

The catalytic conversion of hydrocarbons for the production of hydrogen and syngas (H2/CO) is of great interest in research and technology. Detailed heterogeneous kinetics can also provide a better understanding of the reactions involved during the catalytic processes commonly used in the synthesis gas production. The developed models can predict conversion and selectivity at varying operation ...

Current industrial catalysts for the water-gas shift reaction are commonly mixtures of Fe-Cr and Zn-Al-Cu oxides, used at temperatures between 350-500oC and 180250oC, respectively. These oxide catalysts are pyrophoric and normally require lengthy and complex activation steps before usage. Improved catalysts are being sought, particularly for lower temperature (e.g., at T<150oC, equilibrium lowe...

Nano-sized iron-based catalyst was prepared by the micro-emulsion method. The composition of the final nano-sized iron catalyst, in term of the atomic ratio contains: 100Fe/4Cu/2Ce. Experimental techniques of XRD, BET, TEM and TPR were used to study the phase, structure and morphology of the catalyst. Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis (FTS) reaction test was performed in a fixed bed reactor at pressure...

The purpose of this project is to develop hydrogen and CO2 selective membranes to allow combination of natural gas reforming with H2 or CO2 separation in separation enhanced reactors, i.e. membrane reactors, for carbon-free hydrogen production or electricity generation. To achieve this, the project comprises three distinct tasks: system and reactor analysis, membrane materials research and cata...

0021-9517/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jcat.2011.06.016 ⇑ Corresponding authors. Fax: +1 513 556 3473. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. Bool [email protected] (P.G. Smirniotis). High temperature water gas shift reaction (WGS) at low steam to CO ratios has been investigated over Fe2.4Ce0.3M0.3O4 (M = Cr, Co, Zr, Hf, and Mo) type of spinels in the temperature region of ...